Dish cleaner



E. L. N. LAMB Sept. 12, 1933.

DI SH CLEANER Filed Sept. 23, 1952 ATTO NEY 10 a dish cleaner not only suitable means for, car- Patented Sept; 12, 1933 DISH CLEANER: v

Edith L. N. Lamb, New York, N. Y., assignor 'of one-halfto Justine Collins, New "York, N Y.

Application September 23, 1932 Serial No. 634,523

I 6 Claims. (or 15-122) My; invention relates to an improvement in a dish cleaner and. its novelty consists in the" adaptation and arrangement of parts as will be more fully hereinafter pointed out. i i

p 5 The real problem in washing dishes is to apply the solvent and detergent in the usual form of soap to the greasy anddried food on the dishes simultaneously at the same point with a suitable brushing or rubbing means;

My device solves this problem and combines in rying and distributing soap atthe point desired, but also means for brushing orrubbing said desired point at the same time.

Referr'ing'to the drawing, Figure 1 is a. perspective of my complete device.

Figure 2 is a perspective of a metal wool mop adapted to substitute for the brushin Figure 1.

Figures is a tumbler brush adapted to substitute for theibrushjin Figure 1.

Figure 4 is anotheriorm of my device with the brush mounted directly ,on the soap holder. Figure 5 is a bottom plan view of Figure 4 with the handle broken away for convenience in ill'us tration; I I J In the drawing, 5 is a soap holder which is shown herein as made of Woven fwire .but which may be made of any suitable material so long as it allows water carrying some of the soap to pass therethrough; A top 6 is hinged at! in the well known manner and has a spring locking element 8 with a detent9j Arod 10 is rigidly secured to' said holder at one end and a handle 11 is mounted over the opposite endof said rod and a hook 12 is. screwed into theouter end of said handle 11 in the usual manner. A ring 13,

mounted around rod 10 is adapted to hook overi the spring locking element 8 and engage the'detent 9 to hold it in place so as to lock thetop 6 1 to the soap holder 5., y

A tubular holder 14 is rigidly secured to the underside of rod lo'and is adapted to receive and hold in position foruse wire ends 15 of brush l6 and handle attached thereto a dish rubbing v:

and the ends 15 have angular bends at 34 and 17 Figure 2 shows a mop of metal wool having a rod 18 bent at 19 and 20and with two ends 21 adapted to fit the tubular holder 14 and having a mop 22 of metal wool'secured to a ring 23' constituting the opposite end of the rod 18 and which when the 'ends 21 are in place in the tubular holder 5. Y I claim:

so as to bring thebrush 16 directly underthe" holder 14 will also be close to the bottom of holder 5 because of bends 19 and 20in rod 18. V Y 1 .Another and longer type of brush 24 is adapted particularly to go into tumblersand has a I wire frame 25 terminating in ends 26 and which are bent at 27 and 28 so that-ends 26 will fit into sooket' l4 and brush 24 willlie close-to the bot-' tom of holder 5 when so mounted. V V

Another formof my device is shown inliigure 4 in which tubular holders 29 are rigidlysecured 5 r to the bottom of the holder 5 and wire ends of frame-30 are adapted to slide into holders 1129 and be held therein and bends 33 and32 in said" a ends of frame 30 hold the brush 31 inga fixed position for use directly under the holder 5.

'It will be apparent that whether brush 16, r v V metal wool mop 22, brush 24 or brush31 is used that the soapin holder 5 will rundown onto a whicheverorie of: 16, 22, 24 and 31ers used together with the water running therethrough and furnish soap, water and an efiicient'rubbingor brushing means at'the 'samespot simultanedried adhered food therefrom;

The ends 15 of brush 16, or the free ends of eitherof the other brushes 24 or'3l or "of mop 22, may be permanently secured in place in tubular holder 14 or otherwise secured in {a fixed position to the rod 10 so that brush 16. will lie in a fixed or permanent position directly under the ously so as to clean dishes and remove greaseand V 1. In a foraminous'soap carrier having a rod and handle attached thereto, a brush mounted on a frame and meanssecured to said rod adapted to removably hold said brushby the frame in a position immediately'under said soap carrier. i 2. In a foraminous' soap 7 carrier a separable dishrubbing means andnieans for reinovably holding said dish rubbing means in a position'im mediately under said'soap carrier.

3. ma foraminous soap carrier-having arod means mounted on a frame, a tubular holder rigidly secured underrsaidrod and adapted tore- 3 movably hold the shank ends of said frame of;

said dish rubbing means in a position immediately under said soap carrier without any other fasteningmeansf 4. In a for'aminoussoap carrier a dish rubbing meansrnounted on a frame, rneans'for removably holding said dish rubbing means ina position, immediately under said soap carrier comprising;

a tubular holder rigidly secured on each side llO,

of the bottom of said holder into which the 6; In aforami'nous soap holder a rod secured shanks of said frame are pocketed. thereto having a handle at its outer end, a tubu- 1 5. ,In a foraminous soap holder a rod secured lar member rigidly secured to the underside of thereto havinga handle at its outerend, a tubiisaid rd, -a dish rubbing member mounted on a lar member rigidly secured to the underside of wire frame having a pair of shanks adapted to said rod; a brush mounted on a Wire frame having snugly fit said tubular member so that said dish a pair of shanks adapted to snugly fit said tuburubbing member lies underneath said holder. q lar member sothat said brushlies underneath said holder. v EDITH N. LAMB.

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